Category: Industry Events

Photographic Center NW (PCNW) is hosting a workshop on ‘Storing & Organising Your Digital Photographs’ to run on 23rd – 24th June 2012:

“One of the biggest challenges facing a photographer today is the management and storage of their digital assets. For many photographers, they are now asked to …

Major DAM vendor supplier, Amazon Web Services present this webinar on how to use AWS to deliver large scale digital media solutions using their AWS Cloud platform:

“With the advent of digital media, 3D, HD, animated video, and an expanding array of internet devices, Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies …

The Photo Metadata Conference is being held in conjunction with the CEPIC conference in East London (UK) on 17th May 2012.  The event costs 120 UK Pounds and will cover both applying metadata to help photos get found in searches and a rights presentation on preventing images from becoming ‘orphaned …

The Cross Media World Expo takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London (UK) between September 3rd – 4th.  The event is targeted at print-focussed marketers but covers a wide range of other technologies also, including digital asset management:

“Cross Media 2012 is a brand new, highly …

Another DAM-specific conference, the  ambitiously titled “Digital Asset Management World Summit” takes place in Amsterdam this June on 26-27th June this year (2012).  The key issues to be addressed are described as:

“IP Based workflows, rights and royalties of digital assets, workflow in the cloud, business process management, collaborative …

Earley Associates have announced a one off webinar: “DAM and The Art of Content Choreography“.  The event will feature Seth Maislin and Dan Taylor (both from Earley).  If you’re nervously unsure about what exactly ‘Content Choreography’ means, this Earley article explains:

“We like Content Choreography because it …

Henry Stewart, the first (and at one time only) DAM conference organiser have announced the dates for each of their conference venues in 2012:

• DAM New York – May 10th – 11th
• DAM Europe* – June 25th – 26th
• DAM Chicago – September 13th
• DAM Los Angeles – November

Createasphere have made us aware of their 2012 conference dates.  For those readers who plan to attend one or more event, the breakdown is:

• Los Angeles – February 22-23, 2012
• New York – September 27-28, 2012
• New York (including DAMMY Awards) – September 28, 2012
• The Hague (Netherlands) – November

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto are hosting a one hour webinar presentation on “The Invisible Dangers of DAM”.  The webinar will cover these major topics

• Managing expectations and delivering successfully at a level that can be achieved and maintained over time.
• Monitoring and improving DAM systems so

The New York Enterprise Search Group is holding a ‘meetup’ seminar that will discuss “Video Search and the Rise of Time-coded Metadata”.  Timecode or timeline metadata is one of these subject areas that offers currently untapped potential for DAM systems, so this event looks well worth attending if you either …

Kashyap Kompella from consultants, Real Story Group has written up a summary of the Creatasphere DAM Europe conference which was held in the Hague (Netherlands) recently.  Kashyap has done a great job of distilling the material from the conference into this piece and covers 10 key areas:

• DAM is (finally)

A conference dedicated to the popular open source Lucene/Solr text search library (which is widely used by both open source and commercial DAM systems) is being held in Barcelona on 19-20th October.  The event costs money to attend but if your business or organisation depends on Lucene or Solr …